Harpagidia magnetella (Staudinger, 1871)

Bidzilya, Oleksiy, Karsholt, Ole, Kravchenko, Vasiliy & Šumpich, Jan, 2019, An annotated checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) of Israel with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4677 (1), pp. 1-68 : 27-28

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4677.1.1
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scientific name	Harpagidia magnetella (Staudinger, 1871)
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Harpagidia magnetella (Staudinger, 1871) View in CoL

Gelechia magnetella Staudinger, 1871 —Berl. ent. Z. 1870: 310.

Harpagidia pallidibasella Ragonot, 1895 —Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1895: 107.

Gelechia melitophanes Meyrick, 1931 View in CoL —Exot. Microlep. 4: 85.

Records. Meyrick, 1931: 85 ( melitophanes View in CoL ).

Material examined. 1 ♂, Jerusalem, 6.vi.2004 (Kravchenko) ( TAU) .

Distribution. Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Lebanon ( Zerny 1934: 19), Israel.

Remarks. Gelechia melitophanes was described from a pair collected in ” Palestine, Mt. Carmel, May” by S. Tapukhi ( Meyrick 1931: 85). According to Clarke (1969:175) they are labelled ”Place of Sacrifice, 2.5.30 S. Tapukhi. Carmel”, both are males and both are in very poor condition.